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Obituary: Viola (Bausman) Davis Hickman

I have several obituaries for my great-grandmother, Viola (Bausman) Davis Hickman. She was the daughter of Nicholas Jr and Catherine (Hebenstreit) Bausman. Her first husband, Percy Davis, was my great-grandfather. She married her second husband, Herb Hickman, in 1956 at age 63.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Holy Trinity Catholic Church here, with burial in the Scales Mound Township Cemetery. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Steinke-Schmadeke Funeral Home at Galena, Ill., where the Scripture Wake Service will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Surviving besides her husband are a son, Stanley Davis; a daughter, Mrs. Harold (June) Harwick, and two stepsons, Cleland and Kenneth Hickman, all of Scales Mound; 13 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren.